US uses headquarters as a weapon of war against Iran

The war started on February 28 by the USA and Israel against Iran reaches a stage of breaking international morality with the transformation of water resources into direct military targets. Last Saturday (07), contrary to the Geneva Convention, US bombings destroyed the desalination plant on the island of Qeshm, in Iran, interrupting the supply of drinking water to 30 villages.

The attack takes place in a nation that was already facing severe supply crises before the conflict, which reveals a deliberate attempt by Trump to impose the deprivation of a vital resource to rouse the population against the Iranian government.

The strategy, however, did not have the expected internal destabilization effect; The Tehran regime remains strengthened and responded on Sunday (08), using drones against a desalination unit in Bahrain, which supplies water to American naval bases. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called Washington’s initial action a “blatant and desperate crime,” setting the precedent that civilian water infrastructure has become the new center of gravity of hostilities.

Drinking water is also being contaminated by toxic rain that was created by fumes caused by US attacks on fuel depots in Iran. Toxic rain burns the skin and destroys the lungs. Winds are carrying the contaminated clouds northeast toward Central Asia.

Thirst as a weapon of submission

The use of thirst as a weapon of war is not an isolated phenomenon, but a recurring tactic of domination. In Palestine, the scorched earth scenario led by Israel serves as a mirror for the current escalation.

Since 2023, 90% of the sanitation infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed, leaving 97% of the water unfit for consumption and causing water losses. US$29.9 billion in assets, according to the World Bank. In the West Bank, unequal control and more than 250 attacks on water sources between 2021 and 2025 had already been denounced by international organizations as deliberate barriers to the survival and development of Palestinians.

Although the use of water in conflicts dates back to the sieges of Antiquity and the bombings of the Second World War, the current attack on modern desalination plants — in regions where the availability of fresh water is ten times lower than the global average — projects an unprecedented health collapse.

On Saturday (7), in an interview aboard Air Force One after the ceremony to receive the bodies of six soldiers killed in combat, US President Donald Trump cynically denied accusations of attacks on civilian targets. When asked about the bombing of the desalination plant in Qeshm and the damage to schools, Trump reacted angrily. He refuted what he called the “left-wing media”’s fixation on “defending or minimizing” Iranian actions — whom he accused of “chopping off babies’ heads” (sic) — while denying direct responsibility for civilian damage and attributing the destruction of the girls’ school to Iran itself.

By targeting the basic survival of millions of civilians, the US and its allies abandon any pretense of humanitarian ethics and appeal to the “geopolitics of headquarters”, which uses the unviability of life as an instrument of extermination and military pressure.